The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-22
SUNNY HEARTS.
GI1MpsEs OF, THE LIFE OF THE
LONDON SWEEPS.
Beings Whose Black Exterior Serves
to Attract the Suns Warmth-Notes
80 O+bar. Humble Workers

Reinas Whose Black Exterior Serves
to Attract the Suns Warmth-Notes
of Other Humble Workers.
From tie PHILADELPHIA Record.
LONDON. April 1T was my literary task
last week to tell you ''summat' of Dondons
xhadows Let me tell you to-day Il little of
sts sunshine. That beautiful poem by our
preat Trowbridge, entitled 1.-THE Charcoal
Man can be well appreciated in London.
a.Flls cry is one of the most peculiar cries in
HIondon's streets 1t islike the notes of some
wild bird. The unpoetic word charcoal
Fslingers from his lips in thrilling cadences on
the all. He travels about the streets, gen.
orally with donkey-cart, the latter being
filled with his sacks of charcoal and coke.
He sells more of the latter, coke being a
preat favorite in the fuel line with the thrift
~ British housewife, who thus ekeS out her
ssc,lllery fires. The ''sculleI.y," by the way,
Is nothing more nor less than the back
kitchen. In it is built the copper" or, to
interpret for American understanding,
the stone stationary clothes-boiling ma
chiae A fire is made under this primitive
boiler. in which the family washing goes
through its particular purifying process on
the general wash-day, which is once in two
weeks Stationary tubs, as we have them
in America unless they may be built in
few modern flats, are in England AN I'M
known luxury But ''the copper is a time
honored convenience. All the odds and ends
4 are consumed to keep the fire underneath
well going. Cinders carefully saved during
the week. with coke and sometimes char
coal, help to make hot, quick fire.
CHEEKY, DESPITE HIS BLACK LOOKS.
The charcoal man" is always black of
complexion, that is, soot-colored. One
wonders if on Sundays or special holidays
he comes out as white as his neighborS, or if
the blackness becomes ''g1imed I'M through
its daily layers The charcoal man. wears
a big hat and boots coming over his .trous-
ers 10 his knees. In all sorts of weather he
travels the streets He picks up deal of
information one way and another, and there
is an unspOken, unwritten law of courtesy
which compels one at intervals to ask the
charcoal man. if he will ''have a glass of
beerm Needless to say his answer is always
in the affirmative He belongs to London's
''sunshine,n despite his grimy face, because
his heart is CHEEKY, his speech pleasant and
his work honest.
SWEEPS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT.
Some Of his relatives are pretty sure to be
"sweeps.n Briefly I've alluded to them
heretofore. Years ago young lads, appren-
tices of the sweep, often a young son or
brother, were sent up the chimney to sweep
it out, clinging to the hooks inside. Several
horrible accidents occurred, however, and
the majesty of the law stepped in, forbidding
II such risks in future. Poor little lads, it
must have been rather lonesome and black,
those ascents up the wide soot-incrusted
chimneys. | dare say much exaggeration
may be traced i'll the tales of cruelties prac-
ticed on young sweeps, but perhaps it was
the stories of these cruelties which served to
4 change the law in their behalf Nowadays,
q instead of the nimble-footed lad, the sweep
81 sends up the chimney a species of telescope
81 brush, frightening itself out at pleasure
81 The bristles part of the brush is made like a
huge round ball, SO as to brush the SCOT
from all sides. Hence, instead of a boys
head emerging from the top of the chimney,
the brush appears, looking certainly most
odd and uncanny i'll the dim light of early
dawn. For, naturally, chimney sweeping
must be done before the fires are arranged
for the day. ---- :
HOW CHIMNEY Is SWEPT
First the brush handle is inserted in the
end OF long tube, as long as may be
handled conveniently, and pushed up the
chimney, as L have said, telescope-wise.
En- mat end Is again inserted in second tube
IKE stick and SO on, the brush being piled in all
~ DIRECTIONS as 1t makes its ascent to the top
Inc sweep" before beginning operations
covers the fireplace over the mantel, etc.
WIN bagglng curtain. The SCOT settles to
the bottom, the CRATES being removed.
After the work is done the SCOT is gathered
81 up III tne receiving bag, and later on sold to
chemists for various uses. The English
Ditunlnous coal makes enormous quantities
OF SCOT during the year, SO the ''sweep"
1ales we'll, the SCOT being his Derouisife
When they used broader chimney places
ana the law did not forbid the boys ascend
ing the same, the bags of falling SCOT were
tne sweeps only pay Now he gets so much
Rer chimney In money, added to the SCOT
Ines Inc sum ranges from sixpence each up to
I1nlllilg once IN every three months the
FL va Vi parish law compels the housekeeper
~ nave ms chimneyS swept. Neglecting
oials there Is danger of the chimneys getting
ailre by reason of these incrutiations arising
because we sit beside our CHEEKY fire kept
roaring up the chimneys.
SINGING THROUGH THE STREETS.
Inc sweep" has cry between a growl
anu an exclamation Sweep! sweep.
weep, ahoy" he announces in his tour of
are sueets homeward after his early morn
NY TOLL He never calls out while on his
WY WY 10 work. That would disturb the
sselshoois asleep in their beds. But in the
~euoolS, say 10 or II O'Clock, he lets YOU
NOV NOV OF his approach. Hailing him you
d 4aSU make an appointment for the next
S %y, Vi Whatever day better suits your own
pymnelilehce as well as his engagements.
HIohptly on time he makes his appearance.
~ilng MS homely but useful work very ex-
laC1lously and silently. l have never
L.aiu oi dishonest sweep. There doubt
FOL are such IN London, but that is not their
"duit They are licensed to do their
sleaI, and, as many of them see only
carPy mad Of all work while they are en-
seul many valuableS lie about ready for
"''ln 10 pocket if dishonest.
>, SCOT AS ABLEAcHING POWDER
sa, nave already spoken of the whiteness of
tbo leeth. Like the traditional negro.
Eaai. worries gleam through their reddish
S.e eA Ups, The reason is the SCOT, which
Az the teeth white and preserves them to
vb n,ar vicious degree. Their complexions,
lpSjt washed wa clean, are very pale, again the
Goalg ol The chemical action-a species of
ma,aai ing process to the skin as it is to the
plo t tln surface of the teeth They are SIM
tyhp0,.i n these sweeps, making fairly good
nja al thelr business. They are not. as n
and D long OF life. Asthma and other throat
s iulie diseases take them off ere old age
eycos 'i Ihey are temperate people, and not
Ierb.,H smokers, generally speaking.
te nS sis Ihey smell too much smoke from
Ast a9 i.ey fues to care for the weed. Be
10 II may, they seldom smoke to excess.
~. GRIaIY VISITOR.
aceSy own particular sweep is quite a char